"Portland | Race Against the Past" looks at the context of racist laws, a shocking hate crime and other factors in Portland's past that present an image of the city that's more complicated than the typical progressive stereotype.

In a post on the CBSN site previewing the special, Oregon historian Walidah Imarisha is quoted saying, "Oregon is a racist utopia," referring to an 1857 provision in the Oregon constitution that said, "No free negro or mulatto...shall ever come, reside, or be within this State, or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or sustain any suit therein."

It also revisits a notorious, painful hate crime, the 1988 murder of Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian immigrant who was attacked and killed by three members of a skinhead gang known as "East Side White Pride."

"Portland | Race Against the Past" is scheduled to stream on CBSN Monday, Oct. 30 at 8 p.m., 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET, which would be 5 p.m., 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. PT.